About a month ago, when Bobo first got sick with his Silver Lake-induced shigella/ear infection travesty, we had an unfortunate loss in our household… our trusty changing pad finally kicked the bucket. I was sad, because it was one of the first baby items we bought when setting up our ‘nursery’ (which was actually just part of the bedroom in our apartment), and I was so excited to buy all the fun changing pads for it and shocked at how big it was. When Bobo finally arrived he didn’t even take up half of it! Well, by the time it…

I have so many pictures lately of the Bobo falling asleep in cute non-bed places. I love it, I can’t get enough of it! I have always found it funny and adorable. It simply doesn’t occur to him to go and lie in bed when he’s tired, so if he’s extra tired one day or we’re quite late for naptime, this is what happens: I love that he was in the middle (actually almost at the end of) “reading” his Little Critter book. It’s seven books in one, so it takes a long time to read! He was so sweet,…

Bobo has an obsession with order. He loves to line things up, sort them, organize them. He will sit and line up his cars all day long, and that is the best kind of fun to him. One special activity he loves is helping Momo sew, and his job is to take every single little multi-colored pin out of its box very carefully, and line them all up, then carefully place each one back in the box. He is very careful and very methodical, and it is so precious! He is such a good little helper, he will sit next…

How funny are these sunglasses? I got them over a year ago at Mother and Child… they were on a display by the register and tiny Bobo grabbed onto the package they were in and thought it was the best toy ever, so I brought them home. Last year he wasn’t into wearing them at all, he maybe let me put them on his face for 5 seconds, and then would rip them off. Same thing with hats. And its too bad, these are such a good idea, they fasten in the back so little munchkins don’t lose them like…

Last week (or maybe it’s two weeks ago now?) we decided to have ourselves a Harry Potter movie marathon, in celebration (and as a refresher) to the Half-Blood Prince coming out in theaters. We owned the first three, and then ended up buying 4, and then borrowing 5. Each night we would watch a different one. Bobo now knows how to say ‘Poht-a’ for Harry Potter, so cute, but he was less than impressed with having to sit through all those movies. Anyway, by the time we got to HP 4, Todd had this excellent idea that we should make…

For Arin’s Birthday, Uncle Todd, Jason (and others who later abandoned the effort) came up with the idea to make a Tower of Presents or something like that. What they ended up with, 65 boxes and 17 rolls of duct tape later… was this awesome Fort of Birthday Fun! If it wasn’t great enough on its own, it’s little nooks and crannies were filled with toys, books and candy! These two spent hours and hours in the pitch-black bug infested night working on this crazy thing… lit only by the light of Bobo’s green lightsaber (which did not survive the…

Continuing on with Bobo’s birthday party… After/during cake there was juice box time when all the little boys had to have their fix of Apple and Eve. 🙂 Arin continued to open presents throughout the day… when Grampy arrived he brought a huge Santa-bag full of toys and fun stuff. There were so many things Bobo got burned out from opening them all and couldn’t even finish! I will do another post about Bobo’s exciting outdoor present later… this is what people were congregating around, especially the little kids! One thing Bobo loved was letting balloons go! He thought this…

Bobo turned 2 last Wednesday, and we had birthday fun that day (pictures to come), but his big party was on Saturday. We spent all week getting ready, cleaning up and baking treats, and then on the big day lots of friends and family came over to help Arin celebrate his birthday! He had so much fun running around with all the stuff to do and people to play with, and didn’t even get a nap in… he was so exhausted from all the fun that he passed out at 8pm sharp… which is funny because that was the ‘end…

Bobo turned two years old today (this morning), where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday he was turning one: And it doesn’t seem that long before that that he was joining us in the world for the very first time: I love you forever and ever and wish you the happiest birthday now, and for every year to come… kisses little munchkin!

Bobo got this piggy bank from my mom’s friend Jen when he was just a tiny little peanut. Isn’t it so charming and adorable? I randomly would put coins into it whenever I had some, or cleaned up something. When Bobo got a big bigger I let him put a few coins into it at a time and he was too little to really understand what he was doing. The other day he brought it out and my mom found a bunch of coins and put them on the ground for him. He had such a fun time putting each…